The newspapers have no one to blame but themselves. Nearly every major city paper leans hard to the left and their reporting hasn't been objective in many years. Many of us that are conservative stopped reading and suscribing to newspapers years ago for this very reason. The only time I will waste money on one is when I need it to clean windows.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the content of the paper, but with the shift in the media through which the content is delivered. Whether it is the "left leaning major city" newspapers or the "oh so objective conservative" newspapers like the Washington Times, print media is slowly going the way of the dodo, because it simply cannot compete with the 24x7 instant news cycle the internet provides. A newspaper is literally yesterday's news, and every day less people are rolling with yesterday's news anymore.

I am older sort of hate to see this go. I do not get the paper delivered anymore because I work so early I can't get to it. So people like me are the reason for the failure (And of course Katrina which decimated the population). I do try and stop and get one on my way to work. I am not so sure this paper was so liberal just my view. Times have changes but I used to really enjoy my coffee and paper in the morning. For me the computer just is not the same.

See, I can agree with this. For some inexplicable reason, I still dig the aesthetics of a newspaper in the hand. The ink-stained fingers, that paper smell, the aggravation of hunting ahead to page A-12 to continue the story ... there's something I'll miss about all that when physical papers are gone for good. The Times-Picayune has been a massive part of New Orleans-area culture over the years, I'm still a little surprised at this decision.